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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in ‘grim’ report (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course it's accelerating - we keep increasing global pollution year over year.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

That, and all the unforeseen effects that recursively compound the severity of the others in an ever-accelerating snowball effect.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago

I don't know how to tell people that we need to push for policy changes but it's also too late to save everyone now. People are already dying and it will only get worse. The elites are about to commit a genocide on a scale that not even the Holocaust will compare to because they can't have their line stay the same for a few years (not even go down).

[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Yes, a glimmer of hope, that we will do something by 2050 to limit climate warming and sea level rise. Oops, King Trump enters the room: Glimmer Gone now.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No shit.

[–] Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

But how is Big tech supposed to survive without their big data centers that MUST be powered by fossil fuels?